Developer says agents speed up unfamiliar codebases but not familiar ones

What the research found

Hacker News Ask HN thread where a developer says agents help a lot for analyzing unfamiliar codebases but they still code faster by hand once familiar; it is opinion with no measured data.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

1. Agentic coding is faster than hand coding for the author 37%
2. Agents are quick at analyzing unfamiliar codebases 6%

Evidence

• news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145991

Actionability rated none.